S49.E13: Sydney Sweeney / Kacey Musgraves

[Galileo908]

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Hosted by Sydney Sweeney with musical guest Kacey Musgraces

Airs 3/2/24

Edited March 3 by Galileo908

[Galileo908]

Cold Open: Finally, a sketch about Biden! Daily Show beat SNL to this bit about everyone saying how great he is but won't actually show us them. But Daily Show didn't give us the image of Biden trying to parkour. Train Time is real, though.

Monologue: "You definitely didn't see me in Madame Web." It says a lot when the most emotion she showed was when they cut to Glen Powell in the audience.

NYPD Interns: I kept thinking of "hated it!" from Men on Film whenever the two girls said :found him." Loved JAJ trying to imitate them.

Please Don't Destroy: Definitely had the most PDD way to die. Kinda dumb, but I liked Chef Boyardee showing up at the end.

Air Bud: Okay, a cheerleader earnestly trying to hit on Air Bud is a fun premise. And Air Bud had a girlfriend and Sydney Sweeney was offended by it was funny. She was a trooper for selling this so much.

Big Bench: Apparently a parody of Hot Bench, which has three judges. So this one has 17. Er, 16 and a dog. A different dog than Air Bud, to boot. I liked this one. Ego was definitely the MVP.

Bowen's Straight: Straight Bowen? He's showing off range!

Bride: Wasn't a fan of all the "Shoooots." Weird how Chloe Troast was swapped out with Molly as the camera cut away from her the first time.

WU: I'm gonna miss the Mitch McConnell "seen here" jokes. I had the captions on, but I still had no idea what Heidi as the Golden Bachelorette was saying most of the time. And man, the wardrobe department needs an award for Ego's pregnant stringray costume (THAT wasn't on my bingo card) and the clips holding Heidi's skin together. Ego's bit was surprisingly great.

Hooters: Okay, liked seeing Bowen in this one. I wish he somehow got more tips than Sydney. "I was a crossing guard, thousands died." was the line of the sketch. And yes, Hooter B Owl is real, but he doesn't look like Nite Owl from Watchmen.

Airbnb: Oh, this wasn't a commercial, it was a sketch. It was CRIMINAL for the only shout out to that AI Wonka experience in Glasgow to be hidden in this sketch.

Date Night: I can't get over Dismukes's mustache. Yep, nothing kills rowdiness like an earnest statement of affection. or reminders of their mother's humanity. But not even Dismukes's mustache could save his girl from Glen Campbell. Powell

Well, only SOME of the sketches about Sydney Sweeney being hot and had boobs, but at least she was funny and was all in on being silly. Otherwise, this one was just okay.

Edited March 3 by Galileo908

[JeanJean]

Meh-pisode.

But I did like Kaci (sp?) Musgrave and I thought the final sketch was clever.

The wedding preppers sketch sucked. (Two people saying the same thing together over and over just isn't funny to me.)

PDD -nah.

(I am convinced, however, that Pedro Pascal would make any sketch hysterical.)

I wish they'd have a dog as guest host. Or maybe the 50th season could be all dogs and Pedro Pascal. I'm serious.

[ebk57]

6 minutes ago, Galileo908 said:

Date Night: I can't get over Dismukes's mustache. Yep, nothing kills rowdiness like an earnest statement of affection. or reminders of their mother's humanity. But not even Dismukes's mustache could save his girl from Glen Campbell.

If only it had been Glen Campbell I might have know who he was... 

The show wasn't terrible.  I did hate the opening and PDD did not work for me.  And Heidi on WU was awful.  But the rest wasn't terrible. 

[txhorns79]

4 minutes ago, Galileo908 said:

Bowen's Straight: Straight Bowen? He's showing off range!

It felt like a sketch that could have been funny, but they really had no idea how to make it work or write a decent ending to it. 

[Dirge]

16 minutes ago, Galileo908 said:

Airbnb: Oh, this wasn't a commercial, it was a sketch. It was CRIMINAL for the only shout out to that AI Wonka experience in Glasgow to be hidden in this sketch.

Thanks for this - I had FF'd right past it (it didn't help that it was preceded by yet another CA political ad; thank goodness Tuesday is Election Day here). I did laugh at the Wonka reference. 

7 minutes ago, txhorns79 said:

It felt like a sketch that could have been funny, but they really had no idea how to make it work or write a decent ending to it. 

To me this is like 90% of the sketches the last few seasons. 

PDD: YOU GUYS ARE NOT FUNNY. 

Edited March 3 by Dirge

[JeanJean]

7 minutes ago, ebk57 said:

And Heidi on WU was awful.  

I never like Heidi on WU, but she's always good in sketches.

[MrWhyt]

better than last week, but that's not saying much. Loved WU's continued jokes about Mitch McConnel. Of the live sketches the absurdity of Air Bud got the most laughs out of me.

[Blakeston]

I thought this was terrible. Sydney played a bimbo over and over again, and I didn’t laugh at much of anything besides WU.

The “shoot” sketch was just painful.

[JeanJean]

The running Mitch McConnell jokes on WU were great. I'm a little sad thinking they may retire those.

[Slade347]

I thought was an average, maybe a little above episode. There wasn't a lot of laugh out loud moments, but there really too many stinkers either, just the wedding makeup sketch and the cold open. The highlights were Air Bud, Bowen's short, and the NYPD sketch. Weekend Update (outside of Heidi's misfire) was great. Sweeney was a pretty solid host. I think she could host a really strong episode with some better writing. I enjoyed both Kacey Musgraves songs.

Edited March 3 by Slade347

[Pete Martell]

I thought this was one of the more consistent episodes of the season, with widespread cast use and several creative sketches. The dinner sketch with Andrew and Sydney was one of my favorite sketches of the season and a nice throwback to some of the more nuanced sketches of past years. Sydney was the opposite of Elordi in that while her range was limited, they tried harder to write for her and she rewarded them by carrying off a great deal of material that some couldn't have, like that whole dog sketch. The pretapes were for the second week in a row consistently solid to good and not padded out or chasing after empty pop culture references. Only Heidi's Update appearance and the "shoot" sketch were bad for me - Hooters ran the risk but Andrew and JAJ made me laugh more than once. Andrew, JAJ, Ego (and Chloe Troast in the AirBnB sketch and Bowen in the straight pre-tape) were all spark plugs through the night.

The dead crowds in the first half of the episode hurt a number of sketches that were clearly banking on a bigger response, especially the police sketch (nothing could save that "shoot" sketch but the DOA audience was so clear). They even brought in a few dogs to get the audience going and it didn't quite work. The days of hooting and hollering for most of the cast are gone, which isn't a bad thing, but the writing has to adjust. The last two episodes have been steps in that direction, but there's a long way to go.

The courtroom sketch was my biggest disappointment of the episode because I didn't think it was that bad, it just fell prey to so many issues with the current material - didn't go far enough, lackluster pacing, lackluster audience, and the cast felt hesitant. I would have made this into a pre-tape and made it go on along the lines of the rap pre-tape The Rock did that had the whole cast, and David S Pumpkins.

I got so tired of seeing articles preemptively complaining about how this episode was going to be sexist and objectifying (and dredging up random other episodes to be upset by) that if they had had her in a bikini all night I wouldn't have cared, but for the most part they seemed restrained.

Edited March 3 by Pete Martell

[rmontro]

Not familiar with Sydney Sweeney, but that's the case with most of the hosts these days.  I must be getting out of touch.  Oh well.  It struck me it must be an interesting life to look like she does, where she's such an obvious personification of what the opposite sex finds attractive.  I'm sure it's a bit of a double edged sword at times, but it's got to be a big help in her profession.

Anyway, fairly average show.  I think I might have even laughed a few times.  It was once or twice, I lost count.

[Spartan Girl]

8 hours ago, JeanJean said:

 

I wish they'd have a dog as guest host. Or maybe the 50th season could be all dogs and Pedro Pascal. I'm serious.

I would kill for that.

I too will miss the “Mitch McConnell seen here” jokes.

[cdnalor]

It really felt like WU was clearing out their backlog of McConnell jokes since this may be the last time they can use them.  I'm gonna miss those.

Oh, so that's why I've been hearing about Sydney Sweeney so much for a while.  Yup, very nice...eyes.

When I read about the Biden behind closed doors bit, I was expecting a repeat of the sketch with Phil Hartman as Reagan being a mastermind in private and a doddering grandpa in public.  I wondered if enough time had elapsed to do that again, but they went a different way.

[peeayebee]

10 hours ago, JeanJean said:

Meh-pisode.

Great description.

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I wish they'd have a dog as guest host. Or maybe the 50th season could be all dogs and Pedro Pascal. I'm serious.

I'm all for that!

I think the only thing I've seen Sydney Sweeney is The White Lotus. 

Hey, did you know she has a great rack!

So, I didn't enjoy this ep. Some of that might be due to my recovering from a stomach bug. Still, there was very little I liked. The Mitch McConnell "seen here" jokes are always good. The little Willy Wonka Experience joke was good. I liked when Ego as the manta ray said, "OK Nat Geo. That is Nat Geo business." I liked the dogs.

I find it really hard to laugh at the "Biden is old" jokes because there's too much at stake. Oh, and in that CO, I wonder if in rehearsals Michael had tried and failed to do a raspy Newsom voice. BTW, is Dana Bash really like that?

There was nothing of interest or humor in the monologue. Did she say that she went to a Trump-themed party for her mom?

The Cold Case sketch wasn't much. I guess I'm tired of young people being so adept at social media so they're so much smarter than the old folk. Get off my lawn!

Please Don't Destroy was just dumb. Did not like. 

Cheerleaders. Meh. Big Bench. Meh.

I did kind of like the Bowen-is-straight sketch. At least that was a bit different.

The bridal party. Ugh. "Shoot" was straight on annoying, not funny.

Hooters. Predictable. Don't they share their tips?

I did like Chloe in the Airbnb sketch. Good voice she put on.

The restaurant sketch was ok. Nothing offensively unfunny.

All in all a waste of time.

[sempervivum]

Speaking of 'out of touch', nobody found Kacey M. performing barefoot in what appeared to be a tattered denim patchwork bathrobe odd? I like her, but there was some cognitive dissonance with that first 'slice of reality' song being sung by someone with a frozen face and over-filled lips?

[baldryanr]

10 minutes ago, peeayebee said:

Did she say that she went to a Trump-themed party for her mom?

She threw a party that was MAGA themed (for example, red hats that said Make Sixty Great Again) so naturally people on the internet completely lost their minds.  At the very least, she was kind of dumb to assume there wouldn't be any blowback from something like that.

[peeayebee]

Her mom threw the party or did Sydney?

[meep.meep]

11 hours ago, ebk57 said:

If only it had been Glen Campbell I might have know who he was... 

The show wasn't terrible.  I did hate the opening and PDD did not work for me.  And Heidi on WU was awful.  But the rest wasn't terrible. 

He's the poor man's Justin Hartley.

They really featured the women in the cast this episode.  

[Kenz]

Most of the sketches in the show seemed to be written by middle school drama students trying to be comedic. The only sketch that was funny to me was the Air Bnb interior designer one towards the end of the show. SNL is in need of some much better writers. I felt embarrassed for the cast members having to read those lines. This show was worse than last weeks, and that one was really bad.

[ebk57]

14 minutes ago, meep.meep said:

He's the poor man's Justin Hartley.

Um, thanks.  I don't know who he is either.  

 

Off to the Google machine...

[juno]

59 minutes ago, Kenz said:

Most of the sketches in the show seemed to be written by middle school drama students trying to be comedic. The only sketch that was funny to me was the Air Bnb interior designer one towards the end of the show. SNL is in need of some much better writers. I felt embarrassed for the cast members having to read those lines. This show was worse than last weeks, and that one was really bad.

You are right. Writing is really bad. I wonder if the loss of so many of the actors on the show has also hurt it?

I am also wondering if the new performers are not great at acting either?

The cue card reading is noticeable as well.

[Madding crowd]

Can someone explain to me the Willie Wonka joke? I noticed the audience howling at the joke but didn’t understand it beyond an Air BnB house. I thought the show was ok , it seems like Weekend Update is getting shorter besides the guests and they are rarely funny. 

[cpcathy]

I had only seen Sydney Sweeney in White Lotus playing a surly teen, and she still comes off as a surly teen. Not impressed at all. I’d read people calling her a star when discussing Madame web, even more than Dakota Johnson. That’s a laugh.

very weak episode,  even PDND was not good. I did enjoy Airbnb, Chloe made it good, I hope she becomes an SNL star.

[peeayebee]

15 minutes ago, juno said:

I am also wondering if the new performers are not great at acting either?

I think you're right, though I don't know if I'd say "acting." "Performing" is more like it. I've said before that I think things need to be quicker paced. I don't know if they're slow because they don't know the lines that well. 

2 minutes ago, Madding crowd said:

Can someone explain to me the Willie Wonka joke? I noticed the audience howling at the joke but didn’t understand it beyond an Air BnB house.

There was an event in Glasgow called, i believe, the Willy Wonka Experience. the promotional art looked great, but it was a gigantic letdown, with half-assed props and, well, not much. Here's one article on it.

[Madding crowd]

Thank you Peeeyebee-it was driving me crazy trying to figure it out!

[rmontro]

3 hours ago, baldryanr said:

At the very least, she was kind of dumb to assume there wouldn't be any blowback from something like that.

Yeah, she was kind of dumb not to realize how stupid and hateful people are these days.  I was going to add "about politics", but there's really nothing political involved there, it's tangential at most, it's just a birthday party theme.

[possibilities]

14 hours ago, JeanJean said:

I wish they'd have a dog as guest host. Or maybe the 50th season could be all dogs and Pedro Pascal. I'm serious.

With a Whiskers R We cat adoption sketch, included. 

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12 hours ago, JeanJean said:

The running Mitch McConnell jokes on WU were great. I'm a little sad thinking they may retire those.

I have faith that someone else with an equally mockable persona will emerge as eligible for the same style of joke, probably quite quickly after Mitch steps back.

14 hours ago, ebk57 said:

If only it had been Glen Campbell I might have know who he was... 

I didn't know who he OR the host are. I have to look up a lot of the recent ones. 

I did think that the joke of "Sydney Sweeney Todd" was good and I wish they had actually made more of it. A musical like they do when what's his name hosts... John Mulaney (I'm forgetting names a lot lately, this is not a dig against him personally).. would have been a better use of that joke than the throwaway. But maybe they thought she couldn't do anything other than jiggle her boobs and look doe-eyed and use a baby voice. Though... a doe-eyed, simpy baby voice Sweeney Todd could be a good hook, too. The Bloody Booby Bimbo  Bambi Butcher Baker [and Candlestick Maker?] of Fleet Street! Can she sing or dance? 

Justin Hartley played the white brother on This is Us. He's currently the lead on the new show Tracker. He takes his shirt off a lot, and sets his jaw while looking off to the middle distance.

I did laugh at the social media sleuth interns. When i watch TV shows with IT experts, they are always dudes with huge computer set ups that look like they come from a sci fi movie and cost ten trillion dollars and it's all done with hacking and illegal obtaining of info. But, haha, all you need is a cell phone and some knowledge of social media. Cases closed! Go to the beach! 

 

 

[peeayebee]

28 minutes ago, possibilities said:

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I have faith that someone else with an equally mockable persona will emerge as eligible for the same style of joke, probably quite quickly after Mitch steps back.

There are no shortages of candidates.

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I did think that the joke of "Sydney Sweeney Todd" was good and I wish they had actually made more of it. A musical like they do when what's his name hosts... John Mulaney (I'm forgetting names a lot lately, this is not a dig against him personally).. would have been a better use of that joke than the throwaway. But maybe they thought she couldn't do anything other than jiggle her boobs and look doe-eyed and use a baby voice. Though... a doe-eyed, simpy baby voice Sweeney Todd could be a good hook, too. The Bloody Booby Bimbo  Bambi Butcher Baker [and Candlestick Maker?] of Fleet Street! Can she sing or dance? 

You're right. This was a missed opportunity. It could have been really clever and funny.

 

[Pete Martell]

2 hours ago, juno said:

You are right. Writing is really bad. I wonder if the loss of so many of the actors on the show has also hurt it?

I am also wondering if the new performers are not great at acting either?

The cue card reading is noticeable as well.

I blame the writing supervision. Many of the current headwriters have been there for a long time - one for almost twenty years (Kent Sublette). There's just been a real breakdown for me in the last few years. Some I could blame on certain writers, as the parts of the show that gorge on stilted camp and annoy me the most tend to be from a certain group (O'Connor, Fowlie, Yim, Nordwind - the first three apparently wrote that bride sketch which I thought was the weakest part of the episode), but it can't just be a few people, it has to be an issue at the top. Partly based on seemingly just being burnt out and coasting until the 50th anniversary. 

A lot of the newer performers are more from standup than improv. I think Chloe Troast maybe one of the few who isn't. Another issue is the show doesn't seem to know the strengths of a number of performers or how to use them. For instance, Michael Longfellow got some praise from fans last season for his Update appearances. This season he's only been on there once yet he's in cold opens playing politicians, which he doesn't even try to do (and I don't blame him there - no real point in faking it if you can't do it). Why? 

When I got back into SNL around 2019 one of the first things I noticed was fans complaining about cue card reading and how obvious it was. I blamed the director at the time, but he retired a few years ago and the direction has gotten bad again this season after briefly improving, so again I just wonder how much is down to a lack of care in modern SNL.

None of this is new but I do think it all crashed very noticeably when they got back from break. The last few episodes have been better for me but the underlying problems aren't going to go away.

54 minutes ago, possibilities said:

I did think that the joke of "Sydney Sweeney Todd" was good and I wish they had actually made more of it. A musical like they do when what's his name hosts... John Mulaney (I'm forgetting names a lot lately, this is not a dig against him personally).. would have been a better use of that joke than the throwaway. But maybe they thought she couldn't do anything other than jiggle her boobs and look doe-eyed and use a baby voice. Though... a doe-eyed, simpy baby voice Sweeney Todd could be a good hook, too. The Bloody Booby Bimbo  Bambi Butcher Baker [and Candlestick Maker?] of Fleet Street! Can she sing or dance? 

I don't think she can, although fans may know better.

This is one of those ideas that SNL would have done as a little one minute gag or even a title card many years ago, back when all sketches didn't have to be 4-5 minutes. I think that could have been fun.

[Ottis]

15 hours ago, JeanJean said:

The wedding preppers sketch sucked. (Two people saying the same thing together over and over just isn't funny to me.)

I'm with you on that. I kept waiting for the joke.

Have never seen the host in anything, nor the musical guest. I actually thought the musical guest was the more attractive of the two, FWIW. And Sydney Sweeney (sp) was weirdly unattractive in the bride sketch, you wouldn't think changing her hair would make her eyebrows look so weird.

Sweeney was fine as a host (her monologue was decent), but once again the writing was lackluster. And this ep had a weirdly conservative bent, between the Biden criticism (implied), the Hooters sketch and the dudes/chicks at the restaurant solutions (feed dudes, tell women something about their moms). 

I cannot believe Trump waived at immigrants and then said they like him. That is what the clip showed, though. 

1 hour ago, possibilities said:

I did laugh at the social media sleuth interns. When i watch TV shows with IT experts, they are always dudes with huge computer set ups that look like they come from a sci fi movie and cost ten trillion dollars and it's all done with hacking and illegal obtaining of info. But, haha, all you need is a cell phone and some knowledge of social media. Cases closed!

Oddly, nothing they did was unusual, even to me, and my age begins with a 6. Person over 35? FB. Look at relatives' or friends' pages to see if they are public? Check. The dating apps require a bit more work, but nothing secret squirrel. Those cops were clueless.

3 hours ago, Kenz said:

Most of the sketches in the show seemed to be written by middle school drama students trying to be comedic. The only sketch that was funny to me was the Air Bnb interior designer one towards the end of the show.

That skit was certainly the most subtle skit - and I don't think the audience followed it. Maybe the show's current demographic doesn't use Air BnB? The shot about a hotel and an AirBnB costing about the same but one has a camera in the toilet was well done.

[possibilities]

AirBnB gives you more space, though, if you get an entire house like that. I can see the trade off. Also, where I live (in the sticks), people rent out an entire house and there is no hotel or motel nearby. So if you come to visit relatives, or you're traveling with a bunch of kids, and want some privacy, this is the way to go.

Thinking people prefer luxury sheets over space to me is a really weird, really urban viewpoint. Not everyone is a tourist looking to spend all their time sightseeing and spending a fortune on restaurants with their lover and just using the bed at night. Plenty of people have families, or want to cook their own food, or are on a budget and eating in is cheaper, or are looking for a peaceful and quiet getaway, not some luxury noisy centrally located place.

The interior designer joke was funny to me, but the premise that there's no advantage to an AirBnB struck me as very very out of touch with average people, and not wealthy industry folks who are used to being catered to.

 

[Not4Me]

5 hours ago, sempervivum said:

Speaking of 'out of touch', nobody found Kacey M. performing barefoot in what appeared to be a tattered denim patchwork bathrobe odd? I like her, but there was some cognitive dissonance with that first 'slice of reality' song being sung by someone with a frozen face and over-filled lips?

Because I enjoy her music I can forgive the fact that she was dressed like an oven mitt.

[ICantDoThatDave]

15 hours ago, Blakeston said:

I thought this was terrible. Sydney played a bimbo over and over again, and I didn’t laugh at much of anything besides WU.

The “shoot” sketch was just painful.

While I agree with your assessment of the episode overall (especially on the "shoot" sketch being painful), I thought they very much shied away from "Sydney's hot" or "Sydney's a bimbo".  Given recent episodes that centered almost entirely on "OMG the male host is hot" they really seemed to avoid that topic even in her costuming, other than the one Hooters sketch.

Not saying they *should* have leaned into that, just that I didn't see them leaning into that at all other than one sketch.  It was still mostly terrible, just not for that reason, IMO.

[JeanJean]

2 hours ago, possibilities said:

 

Justin Hartley played the white brother on This is Us. He's currently the lead on the new show Tracker. He takes his shirt off a lot, and sets his jaw while looking off to the middle distance.

I love this description.

[Joimiaroxeu]

Cold open: interesting take on Gavin Newsom. I would've gone with one of the guys who doesn't seem so scrawny in a suit. Ego's WH press secretary needed a better wig. Marcello's Mayorkas looked like Lex Luthor to me. Loved Devon Walker's Draymond Green energy.

I barely remembered Sydney Sweeney from White Lotus. She's sure got that body-ody-ody, and has a sense of humor about it.

The PDD sketch was weird but Chef Boyardee got some primo product placement.

Suggested bestiality involving teenaged girls. WTAF, SNL.

Judge Woof was on point.

Gina Gershon. Random.

Wait, I thought "PrEP" was only for protection against HIV, not pregnancy or other STIs. Straight Bowen is looking for trouble in more ways than one.

Does Kacey Musgraves usually perform barefoot? From a distance she sort of resembled a younger Mariska Hargitay.

WU:
Colin might want to double-check the definition of the word "coincidence."
Saw that woman's age as a speed limit joke on reddit earlier in the week.
The Women's History Month joke has been everywhere, probably ever since the month-long celebration was first created. SNL's writers must have been extremely hard up for WU content this week.
Che accused of fathering the stingray babies. Ew. Ego went all in with that insane costume though.

The Hooters Guy was also wearing pantyhose. Had to appreciate the authenticity.

Sydney was okay. She was game and didn't mind being the butt of a joke, but had too much trouble reading the cue cards. Not sure she's suited for live sketch comedy.

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It was CRIMINAL for the only shout out to that AI Wonka experience in Glasgow to be hidden in this sketch.

Yeah, that mess deserved its own sketch. Unbelievable.

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[ebk57]

I do think it's funny that folks are pointing out that Kacey performed barefoot last night when it was a few years ago that she performed totally naked - except for boots. This time she remembered the clothes and forgot the shoes 😉

[Blakeston]

5 hours ago, ICantDoThatDave said:

While I agree with your assessment of the episode overall (especially on the "shoot" sketch being painful), I thought they very much shied away from "Sydney's hot" or "Sydney's a bimbo".  Given recent episodes that centered almost entirely on "OMG the male host is hot" they really seemed to avoid that topic even in her costuming, other than the one Hooters sketch.

Not saying they *should* have leaned into that, just that I didn't see them leaning into that at all other than one sketch.  It was still mostly terrible, just not for that reason, IMO.

I said "bimbo" because she played a lot of vapid, annoying characters. The cheerleader was too clueless to figure out that Air Bud is a dog. The character in the judge sketch was dumb and trashy. The Hooters waitress was completely incompetent, as was the "shoot" woman.  The NYPD intern was competent, but it was the same kind of vocal fry character she played on The White Lotus. I was hoping she'd get to show more range.

[SomeTameGazelle]

22 hours ago, Galileo908 said:

Bride: Wasn't a fan of all the "Shoooots." Weird how Chloe Troast was swapped out with Molly as the camera cut away from her the first time.

Molly and Chloe were two different characters. Molly was in the room at the start and was sitting by the door when Chloe came in with the bad news from the groom. Molly came over to comfort Heidi and then went back to her chair next to Chloe.

[Irlandesa]

13 hours ago, meep.meep said:

He's the poor man's Justin Hartley. 

 I'd actually call Justin the poor man's Glen.  Glen can actually act. 

 

[Pete Martell]

22 minutes ago, Ottis said:

I'm with you on that. I kept waiting for the joke.

Have never seen the host in anything, nor the musical guest. I actually thought the musical guest was the more attractive of the two, FWIW. And Sydney Sweeney (sp) was weirdly unattractive in the bride sketch, you wouldn't think changing her hair would make her eyebrows look so weird.

Sweeney was fine as a host (her monologue was decent), but once again the writing was lackluster. And this ep had a weirdly conservative bent, between the Biden criticism (implied), the Hooters sketch and the dudes/chicks at the restaurant solutions (feed dudes, tell women something about their moms). 

I felt like Kacey was trying more to show attractiveness than Sydney, I suppose it's not a bad way to get attention on a night where some may have been tuning in for a beauty aspect.

I think the show has been trying to move in a more conservative direction for a while now, in host choices and tone. I didn't notice as much with the cold open because so many other people, like Jon Stewart, have already said what the cold open said, and more, but unfortunately it also shows, again, how redundant and tired the show's cold opens often are. If only they would ever move away from politics.

[Tachi Rocinante]

15 hours ago, Not4Me said:

Because I enjoy her music I can forgive the fact that she was dressed like an oven mitt.

I was more annoyed that the second song's verse patterns and chords were a direct ripoff of Anna Nalick's "Breathe".

Big Bench would have been funnier if they just introduced all the judges and then said, "sorry, we're out of time".

[proserpina65]

Well, that was a mostly unfunny show.  Don't know who Sydney Sweeney is, and this didn't inspire me to make an effort to find out.  And enough with the "Biden's so old" jokes; they were funny once but they lost their humor months ago.

Kacey Musgraves was good, though.

On 3/3/2024 at 1:00 AM, Galileo908 said:

WU: I'm gonna miss the Mitch McConnell "seen here" jokes.

This was literally the only time I laughed during the entire show.

On 3/3/2024 at 1:03 AM, JeanJean said:

I wish they'd have a dog as guest host. Or maybe the 50th season could be all dogs and Pedro Pascal. I'm serious.

I'd vote for that.

On 3/3/2024 at 4:51 AM, Pete Martell said:

I thought this was one of the more consistent episodes of the season,

Consistently bad, maybe.

19 hours ago, ebk57 said:

Um, thanks.  I don't know who he is either.  

 

Off to the Google machine...

I do but only because I've been watching his current show, Tracker, because I liked the premise of it.  Had no idea who he was before that.  He is easy on the eyes.

17 hours ago, possibilities said:

Justin Hartley played the white brother on This is Us. He's currently the lead on the new show Tracker. He takes his shirt off a lot, and sets his jaw while looking off to the middle distance.

That is the perfect description of his acting.

15 hours ago, Ottis said:

Oddly, nothing they did was unusual, even to me, and my age begins with a 6. Person over 35? FB. Look at relatives' or friends' pages to see if they are public? Check. The dating apps require a bit more work, but nothing secret squirrel. Those cops were clueless.

I think the police require warrants to do that.  The dating apps at least.

15 hours ago, possibilities said:

AirBnB gives you more space, though, if you get an entire house like that. I can see the trade off. Also, where I live (in the sticks), people rent out an entire house and there is no hotel or motel nearby. So if you come to visit relatives, or you're traveling with a bunch of kids, and want some privacy, this is the way to go.

Thinking people prefer luxury sheets over space to me is a really weird, really urban viewpoint. Not everyone is a tourist looking to spend all their time sightseeing and spending a fortune on restaurants with their lover and just using the bed at night. Plenty of people have families, or want to cook their own food, or are on a budget and eating in is cheaper, or are looking for a peaceful and quiet getaway, not some luxury noisy centrally located place.

The interior designer joke was funny to me, but the premise that there's no advantage to an AirBnB struck me as very very out of touch with average people, and not wealthy industry folks who are used to being catered to.

 

From what I've read about Air BnB disasters online, I'd never stay in one.

15 hours ago, ICantDoThatDave said:

While I agree with your assessment of the episode overall (especially on the "shoot" sketch being painful), I thought they very much shied away from "Sydney's hot" or "Sydney's a bimbo".  Given recent episodes that centered almost entirely on "OMG the male host is hot" they really seemed to avoid that topic even in her costuming, other than the one Hooters sketch.

Not saying they *should* have leaned into that, just that I didn't see them leaning into that at all other than one sketch.  It was still mostly terrible, just not for that reason, IMO.

Given that being "hot" seems to be all she has going for her, they should've leaned into it more.

 

[rmontro]

16 hours ago, ICantDoThatDave said:

I thought they very much shied away from "Sydney's hot" or "Sydney's a bimbo".  Given recent episodes that centered almost entirely on "OMG the male host is hot" they really seemed to avoid that topic even in her costuming, other than the one Hooters sketch.

Interesting point, because it seems to me that they go to that well a lot, about how hot the host is.  Especially with the male hosts mostly.

[possibilities]

3 hours ago, Tachi Rocinante said:

if they just introduced all the judges and then said, "sorry, we're out of time".

Ha! 

And I had no idea Kacey Musgraves had performed naked except for boots. This is the price I pay for not following pop culture closely enough.

[Pete Martell]

Sydney talks a bit about her episode and reveals that the pitcher was not as full in the Hooters sketch before the live version.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottking/2024/03/07/sydney-sweeney-talks-bai-water-collaboration-snl-and-immaculate/

I don't know if any dress rehearsal reports are around, but I took this down from the comments made on the Saturday Night Network hot take episode last Saturday night.

Cut sketches:

NANNY: Sydney is interviewing for a nanny job and her troubled past is revealed.

SPACESHIP: Sydney is trying to seduce Michael Longfellow, an alien who can't speak without killing humans. His interpreters ruin the moment.

TIKTOK: Punkie is a woman on tiktok hosting a show called Who Da Hell Is My Husband. Sydney and the gang react. This is a takeoff on a viral tiktok with Risa Tisa put out a 50 part series about her marriage that's gone viral.

A few of the people who went to the dress rehearsal said none of these were very good. I think the spaceship sketch may have been done in another dress rehearsal before this one but I am not sure.

 

[Pete Martell]

Some interesting behind the scenes info in this - the idea was originally pitched with Ana de Armas and Dakota Johnson.

[SomeTameGazelle]

18 hours ago, Pete Martell said:

Some interesting behind the scenes info in this - the idea was originally pitched with Ana de Armas and Dakota Johnson.

Video is geoblocked. Which idea?

[Irlandesa]

5 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

Video is geoblocked. Which idea?

It's the Bowen is straight sketch.  They had first pitched it with Ana De Armas.  Then they did a Bowen is bi version with Dakota before the Sydney Sweeney version made it to air.

My favorite part about this was Bowen mentioning that there was an intimacy coordinator and they told Sydney that if she was ever uncomfortable with any part of it, they could cut it.  And she grabs his arm and goes "Bowen, I'm on Europhia."